US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on April 14 for "Rolling bearing and method of manufacturing same" (Dutch, Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,376, issued on April 14, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Rolling bearing and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Xiaobo Zhou (Houten, Netherlands), Thijs Nijdam (Amersfoort, Netherlands), Andreas Vierling (Schwebheim, Germany), Frank Henninger (Grafenrheinfeld, Germany), Bo Shen (Jiangyin, China), Lijun Cao (Houten, Netherlands), Victor Brizmer (Utrecht, Netherlands), Yafen Chen (Shanghai) and Hongyuan An (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling bearing includes an outer ring having an outer surface configured to be fitted into a first component, an inner ring having an inner surface confi...